SEO Permalinks : What You Need To Know

When I get an email from a photographer asking for SEO help, the first thing I do is go give their site a quick SEO inspection. One of the first things I look for during that inspection is the presence of search optimized permalinks. If your permalinks aren’t at least moderately optimized, you’re losing both potential ranking power and visitors from Google.

In this post: I hope to explain what permalinks actually are, how they can benefit you, and I do my best to help you understand the pros and cons of different permalink structures. Probably in waaaay too much detail. I’d rather give you more information so you can make better choices than not give enough and leave you hanging.

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Photographers! Is your site on this list? You’re server may have been hacked.

Update: Good news! BluDomain has seemingly fixed the hack. Woot! The saga is not over yet though…
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Wedding Photographers SEO : Optimizing Images

So you’ve just shot an amazing wedding. You have tons of gorgeous pictures of the bride, the groom, their families, the venue, the church, some of the vendors’ handy work, and practically everything else picture-worthy that happened to wander in view of your keen eye and expensive equipment. Those photos are going to make your clients very happy. If you follow the strategy I outline in this post, they’re also going to make Google very happy and become your SEO secret weapon. If properly used as part of an overall SEO strategy, your photos are powerful marketing tools that could help you to outrank your competitors and lead you to new clients.

In this post, you’ll learn how to:

  • Avoid a few costly SEO mistakes made by many wedding photographers.
  • Formulate a results-oriented keyword strategy for blog posts.
  • Optimize the images in your blog posts to attract new business.

Plus I’ll show you actual proof that this method works and explain the SEO strategy behind it.

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